Spring is Here!
This Nature Walk edition continues from #4.3 – Reptiles, Amphibians, & Mammals.
I’ve broken this post up into four parts due to the large number of images:

4.1 – Arthropods

4.2 – Birds
4.3 – Reptiles, Amphibians, & Mammals

4.4 – Plants & Fungi (this post)

The images are highly compressed for bandwidth’s sake, but you can [...]

Spring is Here!
This Nature Walk edition continues from #4.2 – Birds.
I’ve broken this post up into four parts due to the large number of images:

4.1 – Arthropods

4.2 – Birds
4.3 – Reptiles, Amphibians, & Mammals (this post)

4.4 – Plants & Fungi

The images are highly compressed for bandwidth’s sake, but you can click on the images [...]

Spring is Here!
This Nature Walk edition continues from #4.1 – Arthopods.
I’ve broken this post up into four parts due to the large number of images:

4.1 – Arthropods

4.2 – Birds (this post)
4.3 – Reptiles, Amphibians, & Mammals

4.4 – Plants & Fungi

The images are highly compressed for bandwidth’s sake, but you can click on the images for [...]

Spring is Here!
Days like these remind me what I love so much about the South…warm Springs exploding with life.
This edition of my series of Nature Walks is a big one. I took all of the following images over the past few days – some on my lunch break, some at the NIEHS campus, some at [...]

Ok, so this one is more of a nature drive than a nature walk.
Today I had a half an hour to kill while waiting for a Western blot to run at work, so I took a quick drive around the NIEHS campus, which is typically covered with wildlife (see my last Nature Walk).
I was fortunate [...]

For my next Nature Walk, on my Friday lunch break I decided to take a quick stroll around the lake at the NIEHS campus, camera in hand. Over the past couple of month several coworkers have spotted two river otters in the lake (which is strange indeed). I even managed to spot one while staring [...]

As an actively researching scientist, I generally call this blog a “science blog.” However, I would argue that most scientists are first and foremost “naturalists.” As such, much of my time outside of the lab is not necessarily spent dwelling on all the intricate details of my own research (I try to limit how much [...]